The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-04

containing tu6 bthLoment. am re-
sponsible for the article, aud l sccept
it as a correct exposition of my views.
sm responsible for making the quo.
tations from the fathers to illustrate
the truth that property, especially in
land, has Its duties as we'll as it's
rights. But beyond this l leave all
responsibility for the passages (omit.
ting purposely to translate them to
the authors them:elves and to the
corpus j,tris, and to the eminent writ
ers by whom and by which the pas
sages from st. Clement and from ST..
Ambrose are accepted as genuine. /
remain, most reverend dear Arch,
bishop, with best wishes, very sim
cerely your obedieut servant,
EDWARD M'GLYNN.
Before going further, l would state
that among those who denounced me
to Rome for my Land league speeches
were Bishop Gilmour, of Cleveland,
and Bishop Ohatard, of indianapolis,
the former the author and the latter
the apologist Of the famous or iu-
famous Cincinnati pastoral letter,
which was in great measure delib-
crate thesis against Thorn IS Jefferson g
Declaration OF independence.
He then says: On the 10th OF March
OF last year went, at the request of
Archbishop Corrigan, 10 Washington
to rec ommend to President Cleveland
Brigadier General John Newton, Of
the engineers, for promotion to va
cant major generalship. On my re-
tura l found letter from Archbishop
Corrigan, which / here publish:
Rev. Dear Doctor:
The Bishop of Brooklyn hes called
to direct attention to the inclosed cir
culer, in which you are announced to
speak at meeting presided over by
Henry Ward Bescher. AS the meet
ing 8 10 be held in his diocese the
Bishop obi .cts vehemently to a Cath
olic priest publicly appearing in such
company, inasmuch as he conceives
that great dissdification and scandal
will be the result. At his req lest l
make his views known to you, and l
am forced to say that | too would feel
Inundated TO fad pr est of the arch
diocese openly associsting with man
OF such unhappy reputation as Mr..
Beecher, and even Howard Crosby,
who only last year insulted us all by
saying thai our country would rise
against Romanists and crush them
into dust because we simply asked
that our poor children be permitted,
according to the constitution, to wor-
ship God with liberty OF conscience. l
am the Rev. Dear Doctor, very truly
yours, NJ. A. CoRRIaAN.
In reply, DR.. McGlynn reports upon
the favorable results of his mission in
behalf of DR.. Newton, and adds: 1t
panied me to learn from you that you
would feel humiliat d by my openly
associating with Mr.. Beec6er, who
was to preside, and even with DR..
Howard Crosby. But as you did not
forbid me to 90, probably doub ing your
right to do 90, nor even advise me in
such delicate circumstances to break
my engagement, and as you marked
your letter "Private," l would have
had to cause public scandal by
breaking 80 important an engagement
without being at liberty TO give tn
reasons. The scandal would have
been much increased by the more or
less accurate surmises as to the cause,
and no doubt by the speedy duplication
OF the true cause, which publica-
ton, no matter how great my
reticence, would probably come about
through the indiscretion of fr:ends of
Bishop Loughlin himself. l therefore
determined to keep my engagement,
and all the more readily as / was con-
fident, both from general principles
and from several past experiences OF
my own in similar matters, that your
apprehensions and those OF the Bishop
of Brooklyn would not be verified.
As a matter OF fact, my presence on
that platform drew from both Mr..
Beecher and DR.. Crosby strong and ell.
oquent testimonials in favor of the
Catholic Church. My joining with
these men was to promote the cause
of law in the interest of mo
rslity and temperance, and in
keeping with the spirit of
the Council OF Baltimore, which
was quoted with greatispproval by DIR.
Crosby 1 feel that in doing this 1
surely was not making any Compro-
mise with alleged frauds in Mr..
Bsecher's private chamber, nor with
DR.. Crosby's utterances on the free
dlm of worship I'll. Besides, we
would do well to remember that a
jury, after q long trial, failed to fad
the allegations against Mr.. Bescher
true, aud that is wise maxim, both
in church and state, and in society,
which says dG lOcum penitentiR. We
should also remember that Mr..
Bsecher is today regarded as one of
the greatest and most illustEious of
Americans, and that his advocacy
Of any good cause is tower
Of strength to it. As to DR.. Crosby,
he will not improbably lose a good
deal OF his ssperity in consequence of
such meetings rs that between him
and me last evening and that between
him and Father Walworth q few
weeks ago in Albany in the interest OF
the excise bill. 1t may be well, in
similar matters, to remember the re-
cent example Of the Pope, who sent
to an arch prosecutor Of the church
the decoration OF the order OF Christ,
and of whom the newspapers said a
few days ago that he had sent a special
courier to thank Bismarck for some
complimentary remarks made in an
after dinner speech.
With reference to the letter of re-
minder about political speeches sent
by the Archbishop on August 2lst last
he says: The only political gathering
that can remember at which spoke
shortly before the date Of Archbishop
Corrigan's letter OF August 2lst, was
the great labor demonstration on July
9th, in Union Square, in favor Of Glad
stone and Psrnell, during the Parlia-
mentsry election. l confess that it did
not occur to me that anyone would at
that late date hold me bound by the
voluntary promise l had made three
or four years before, since Rome itself
had haan forced IN change ita attituda